Ukrainian air defenses only intercepted half of the drones that were coming in, a dramatic drop from their normal success rate of 80-90%.
Russia launched an air assault on Ukraine over night on 26 October using 91 drones. Ukrainian air defenses only intercepted 44 of the total – less that half. This is a significant drop from the usual 80-90% success rate.
Russian forces regularly attack Ukrainian regions with a variety of weapons, including strike drones and guided bombs. They also use multiple rocket launchers to terrorize civilians and make life in Ukraine unbearable.
According to the Ukrainian Air Defense Force (UADF), air defense units engaged enemy UAVs in nine regions. The highest interceptions occurred in Sumy Oblast. Ten more Russian drones were lost because of technical failures. One drone strayed into Belarus, and three returned to Russia.
The attack included seven missiles
Three Iskander M/KN-23 ballistic rockets
Two Kh-59 guided missiles
* Two unidentified missiles.
No interceptions reported of these missiles.
The attacks resulted in multiple civilian casualties
* A missile strike in Dnipro killed four people including the family of a local policeman
* In Kyiv a Russian drone killed a 14-year old girl when it hit a high rise apartment building
* In Kyiv oblast, debris from drones intercepted killed a woman and injured a boy aged 13 years.
In Khmelnytskyi Oblast – home to one of Ukraine’s four nuclear power stations – Russian strikes caused a total blackout in the regional’s capital and four nearby settlements.
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